Order of Canada honours conferred

This use to mean something! Now half of the pople getting it deserve it...the others don't desreve shit. Mario Lemieux...sorry he plays a sport that he likes, not for dedication to the community. As someone said "every military person deserves one!"

I sort of agree with this.

This perhaps has become less important. After all, Pierre Boivin, Montreal Canadiens CEO, got one.

And probably that Celine Dion got one of them too some time ago. That means like ev1 else should qualify to get it too.

http://qc.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/1009 ... dre_canada

I think they go to people who contribute to the country and leave some kind of legacy and or recognition for Canada abroad. I think its a good thing

Deserved



Elected by her party which was in a shambles and rejected by Canada when it counted, then handed a job as council General to Los Angeles. Eh, bad call!



Ohhh he made one good film, one ok (or so I thought when i was 10) film and one, what was Twins about again? Bad call!



I know nothing about him so no comment here.I'll leave the review to the English Majors.



Good music and he went to school with my father so he just might have been a good call if not for his bad attitude. Winnipegers might remember many years back when he had a hissy fit at his home town because they never named anything after him. Apparently he had ego issues in high school as well. As childish as he was they eventually named a community club after him. For Order of Canada I feel it has to be accomplishment as well as the person, in his case it should be "no Sugar Tonight" Burt, we'll send you a free crying towel insted, you can pick it up at your community centre which is in the middle of gang territory btw.



I go with one of the past posters comments. He did something he liked, was good at it, but how did he improve Canada and or Canada's reputation on the world stage?



I know nothing about him so nothing to say here except Royal Bank sucks and really...selecting a banker? Hopefully there is more to it than that and he's donated half his wealth to charity or something.



Unlike "I made 3 movies in the 80s people will remember dude at least she started something that might help take native kids off the street and give them some focus and safety etc. I'd give her the award at this level.



Sure why not!

All just personal opinion of course and my own be;lief in what one has to have done to get the highest honour in Canada.

Mario Lemieux deserves the Order. He's a "No-brainer" for 3 reasons:

1. Most of you are too young to remember what a poignant National-pride event the 1987 Canada Cup was for us GEN-Xers. We were too young to remember the '72 Summit Series and there weren't a lot of international tournaments featuring pro-players like there are now. There were no Olympics or World Cups yet. International hockey at the elite level was a new thing. Mario Lemieux is every bit as important for hockey fans my age as Paul Henderson is for folks a little older than I. He was the best player in the world and he led Canada to victory and it was a rush of patriotic joy. The whole country was spellbound. People who'd never seen a hockey game in their lives were riveted. It was a hockey moment every bit as special as Summit '72 or Salt Lake City 2002 or Vancouver 2010. Beyond that, Mario's 199 point season in '88-'89 is the greatest season any player has ever had in the NHL.

2. Mario played most of his career with one ailment or another. Lemieux's comeback from cancer, in particular, showed a ton of courage. He was not only a great role-model for perseverance, but has done tons of charity work on cancer research, including the creation of the Mario Lemieux Foundation.

3. Lemieux has been a prophet of hockey in the USA. He made Pittsburgh into a hockey town. He sold the game to a city that couldn't have cared less before he arrived. Gretzky couldn't do that. Successfully promoting Canadian culture abroad is certainly Order worthy, isn't it?

Mario Lemieux has been outstanding.

But there are some that on that list, over some time, that could be considered other than contributors.

This should being part of an elite membership, not a popularity contest.

Man, some of the names on the list getting the OOC would be like the Queen of England giving a knighthood to Keith Richards.....oh wait